My Yellow Team that I took to the Elite Four was:
Pikachu
Charizard
Blastoise
Articuno
Zapdos
Moltres

In hindsight it probably wasn't wise to bring the legendary birds, Moltres was the only one that could hold its ground, but Blastoise is my favorite in the group primarily because it managed to win me the game with only 12HP

As for favorite pokemon overall it might be dragonair, I'm not absolutely sure.

You're supposed to be the toughest and best trainer in Johto. Why the dick do you have three of the same pokémon in your fucking team? Why is literally half of your team comprised of a pokémon with a crippling weakness? Why was I able to 1HKO everything but your poxy fucking Gyarados?

I don't even feel like I earned this victory. It'd be like being proud of myself for winning the Special Olympics.

Because that's what they did instead of actually improving the AI like they said they did. I've also noticed that it cheats more than it used to, but I suppose The Computer Is A Cheating Bastard has been a staple for Pokémon since the beginning of time.

after flipping my shit over yu-gi-oh for a while with my friends they've gotten back into pokemon. Trouble is I don't own any pokemon cards. Here's where the troule starts.
Since it is my opinion that Eevee is the best pokemon in the world I'm going to make a deck of nothing but Eevee and Eeveeloutions. Which cards would be best for this sort of thing?

>>861Not a very practical deck. It'll be very difficult for you to work anything with that many energies. It'll be funny but don't count on winning... ever.

Best decks are single or dual energy decks, my deck right now is a water/psychic. Psychic has good effects, water tanks. Just start out with a starter deck of some elements you like that you can get in the store, and buy a few booster packs. Experiment with some builds, make sure you have a good mix of cards. I almost always end up with too many pokes in my deck, but I knew a guy who had too few in his lightning/psychic, where he used a quick switch strategy.

>>918lucky, my venipede appears to kind of suck. Everyone says that this poke' is a "destroyer of worlds" but when I went to go destroy worlds it backfired. Now I'm running around outside pinwheel forest leveling it because that seems to be the only place it stands a chance.

That's because it's still a Venipede, not a Scolipede. Like all bugs it sucks before it evolves, it's just this time when it does reach it's final form (level 30) it becomes very threatening indeed.

Once it reaches level 20 I think it learns Poison Tail and then at 22 it evolves into baleful tire of sulkiness, after which it can handle itself reasonably well. Make sure it knows Poison Point rather than Swarm, otherwise you won't get anything out of the awesome move Venoshock.

>>926It's not about liking or disliking; it's about the fact that most people that DO dislike blindly think GEN 1 IS THE BEST GEN AND HAD THE BEST DESIGNS EVER THE NEW STUFF IS SHIT BY DEFAULT

Hence the "nostalgiafags" in the title :V

Every gen has a good number of shit and awesome in about the same proportions; it just takes a while for a new gen to sink in. Also, once you start actually playing the game, a lot of the designs you once dislike start growing on you. That happened to me with a number of them, especially Scraggy/Scrafty.

That I understand. I'm not going around bitching and moaning about how Pokemon is RUINED FOREVERZ. I have my opinion about the designs and a majority of the new ones just don't appeal to me at all, but at the same time I love the shit out of some. I fully admit that. I personally DO think that the first two gens had the best overall design. I don't go around rubbing that into the face of everyone who plays gen 5 though.

Now excuse me while I heart Wargle because it's among my very favorites now why can't you be in every Pokemon game ever lhasdlsjalsk

I'm probably going to get ragged on for saying this but there IS a distinctly higher proportion of just flat-out bad designs in Gen 5 than in previous gens. There were lots of bad ones in Gen 4 as well, I said that in the first place. A lot of them toed the line. But the ones in Gen 5 pretty much take a running fucking leap over the line and land six miles beyond it.

It's like the proportion of shit new designs in comparison to good new designs rises every fucking time.

>>983You have to breed around 1419 eggs to have a 50% chance of getting a shiny with the Masuda method. That's just under an entire 24 hour period of pure breeding and hatcing at a rate of about 1 egg/minute, which obviously doesn't happen.

>>1000Deino has a three-stage evolution, and it's pretty much pure shit until the third stage. If you're willing to train it all the way up to level 65, it'll suddenly become awesome, the pillar of your team. If not, then you can probably tell it to go fuck itself.

Be wary of stat comparisons, though. That's a dark road, and if you choose to go down it, it may end up consuming you.

So I'm working on my Pokemon White team right now, and I realised I need a decent fire-type pokemon (I chose Snivy as a starter), but I really hate the look of Darumaka. It's face just bugs me. I've just arrived at Mistralton City, does anyone know where I can find any nearby wild fire-types?

Also, side note: Current team is Servine, Drilbur, Scolipede, Swoobat, Herdier (Gonna replace him with the fire type) and Panpour.
What 'mon do you all have?

>>1007I got Black and I'm in Driftveil at the moment. My team is currently Servine, Tirtouga, Sigilyph, Darumaka, Sandile and Yamask. I keep swapping it around to try to find the best combination, though, and I don't really like the Darumaka either. The only ones I'm married to are Servine (I always keep my starter on me at all times, it's like a loyalty thing) and Sandile (Krookodile: best name? Best name), and I'm open to suggestions.

>>1024I agree, not sure who thought a main villain that's an autistic guy who ends up starting pseudo philosophical conversations about using animals would be awesome for a kids game, but at the same time I kind of enjoyed it.

Bred an Alakazam with 200 S.atk at level 50.
Now working on member 2 of my super team.

So I'm trying to make a team with the derpiest of derps. So far, I have Garbordor with an awesome Rock Polish set, RestTalking Stunfisk, Curse Bibarel, and Autonomize Vanilluxe. I need more derps; who should I use?

I think I'll fill the last two slots with Carnivine and Probopass, that latter of which is nearly a perfect counter for Ferrothorn, which is common as fuck these days. Unfortunately, it'd give me a HUGE fighting weakness, so I'm trying to find a way maybe replacing Carnivine and ---- EXEGGCUTOR

Hey. I have a question for all ya'll who play competitive pokemon. I'm making a pokemon character (rough design on the right) who is in part a parody of competitive cliches. However, I know almost nothing about competitive pokemon. So -

What's the most cliche'd competitive team you can think of? I'm talking like, strategy, pokemon types, natures, builds, you name it. Just stuff where you walk into a battle and you're like "goddamn, this shit again?" Legendaries are out of bounds, but puesdo-legendaries are fine. I got a basic team up there, but any information/changes would be great. I could probably also read up on what kind of lingo is used. Since you guys seem to be fairly knowledgeable, anyone willing to help a bro out?